If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
ALAN KAYIn success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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But Basic happened to be on a GE timesharing system that was done by Dartmouth, and when GE decided to franchise that, it started spreading Basic around just because it was there, not because it had any intrinsic merits whatsoever.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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School is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in – the one that we think is reality.
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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